Re: xen-current (3.0) port

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:42:39PM -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've to admit I haven't used netbsd in a long time - simply because I never 
> had the hardware laying around for it... So when I recently updated my system 
> with Fedora Core 4 and it had integrated xen support I downloaded the netbsd 
> images and gave it another try... Unfortunately it didn't work since RedHat 
> decided to integrate the latest snapshot release of xen rather than going 
> with the stable version. 
> 
> So I was wondering if anyone was working on moving the netbsd/xen port to the 
> new version of xen or if not,

Not yet. It's too late to get this in NetBSD 3.0, and I'd rather see some of
the Xen2 support improved (incuding save/restore of domains and migration)
than working right now on Xen3.

> how much effort you think it will be...

Probably significant, especially for the multi-CPU support.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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